The Safeguarding Children course provides essential knowledge for recognising, responding to, and preventing risks that may affect children and young people across relevant professional settings. Learners explore child-centred safeguarding, professional responsibilities, vulnerability, abuse indicators, neglect, exploitation, and changes in behaviour.
The curriculum covers responding to disclosures, recording concerns, reporting and escalation, referrals, confidentiality, information sharing, online safety, child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, county lines, domestic abuse, bullying, peer-on-peer abuse, radicalisation, and Prevent awareness.
Learners also examine safeguarding policies, risk assessment, allegations against adults, whistleblowing, multi-agency working, and record management. The course introduces key UK child protection requirements, including the Children Act, Working Together to Safeguard Children, Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent Duty, data protection, confidentiality, and local safeguarding arrangements.
